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'VAN-LIFE GIRL' GABBY PARENTS SPEAK OUT as Boyfriend Hides Out at Parents' Home · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

• 0:06
  Speaker 1: Gabby Petito, now called America's Daughter. Where is she? How
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: can we find her? Why are we not getting answers
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: from her boyfriend, Brian Laundry, who's safe and sound hidden
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: away to his parents home in Florida. Why did he
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: travel all the way back from we think Wyoming without her?
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  Speaker 1: Why did he arrive in Florida around September one? But
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  Speaker 1: nobody knows Gabby's not with him? Where is she? Can
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  Speaker 1: she be found? Joining me now her mom Nicole Schmidt
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  Speaker 1: and stepfather Jim Schmidt. Jim is there in Wyoming. He
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  Speaker 1: has flown out to look for her himself. I'm Nancy Grace.
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  Speaker 1: This is Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us
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  Speaker 1: here at Fox Nation and Serious XM one eleven. I
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  Speaker 1: want you to first hear a family statement let's start
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  Speaker 1: friends at Fox four and a new statement from Potito's
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  Speaker 1: family reading every day the search for Gabby continues, the
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  Speaker 1: Smitt and Potito family become more desperate. They are frantically
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  Speaker 1: searching for answers and information in their daughter's disappearance, while
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  Speaker 1: Brian sits in the comfort of his home. This statement continues, Brian,
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  Speaker 1: how could you do this to Gabby? You selfishly remain
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  Speaker 1: silent while Gabby is all alone in the wilderness. Brian,
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  Speaker 1: your silence is reprehensible. We beg you to do the
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  Speaker 1: right thing and help bring Gabby home. The statement ending
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  Speaker 1: with you turnish your love for her with your silence.
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  Speaker 1: You are hearing Gabby's family begging the boyfriend to speak
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  Speaker 1: out first, straight out to Jim Schmidt there searching for
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  Speaker 1: Gabby on the ground, joining us from Jackson hellaming Jim.
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  Speaker 1: It's almost like looking for Anneel in a haystack because laundry.
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  Speaker 1: The boyfriend is not telling anybody that we know of
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  Speaker 1: where he left Gabby. Yes, that's correct. You know we're
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  Speaker 1: out here. You know to say that, you know we're
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  Speaker 1: actively out in the wood searching. Our reason for coming
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  Speaker 1: out here was to help assist law enforcement with any questions,
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  Speaker 1: put a face with the family and represent us out here.
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  Speaker 1: But just the vast area out here, it's tremendous and
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  Speaker 1: it's it's surreal. I'm trying to figure out We've heard
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  Speaker 1: so many different things. Straight to Gabby's mother, Nicole Schmidt
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  Speaker 1: joining us, Miss Schmidt, Yeah, I practically had to make
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  Speaker 1: a flow chart to figure out where was Gabby last
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  Speaker 1: known to be I know she checked out of a
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  Speaker 1: Salt Lake City hotel. She was seen there, she was
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  Speaker 1: seen at a gas station. Why may I ask, do
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  Speaker 1: you believe her last known location is Wyoming Because the
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  Speaker 1: last time I spoke to her, she said she was
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  Speaker 1: going to the Grand Teaton, and she sent me a
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  Speaker 1: text that she was there. I just have a good
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  Speaker 1: feeling that that's true and that's where she was. Let
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  Speaker 1: me ask you this, miss Schmidt. You got a text
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  Speaker 1: ostensibly from Gabby, but now you wonder that it's not
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  Speaker 1: Gabby who wrote that text. I agree with you. I
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  Speaker 1: believe the text says something like no cell in Yosemite. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: after finding out that the van was in Florida on
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  Speaker 1: the first of September. You do the math if Gabby
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  Speaker 1: doesn't have her phone with her, I don't know. I
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  Speaker 1: think everybody can make their own conclusion from that. Let
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  Speaker 1: me understand the movement, Jim Schmidt, because you have strategically chosen,
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  Speaker 1: for reasons known to you, to search for her in Wyoming,
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  Speaker 1: although her last text said no cell phone coverage in Yosemite. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I thought that she was in Yellowstone and that was
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  Speaker 1: that was their plan. The plan was to come up
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  Speaker 1: through the Grand Tetons and to go to Yellowstone. At
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  Speaker 1: no time was there mention of her going to Yosemite,
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  Speaker 1: which is in California and completely or the track that
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  Speaker 1: you know we thought that she was going on completely. Um,
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  Speaker 1: mister Schmidt, I've taken my twins camping and rving through Yosemite,
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  Speaker 1: Yellowstone and the Tetons there. I guess eight hundred miles
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  Speaker 1: apart that those were different trips, right, yeah, yeah, absolutely
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  Speaker 1: so when Nicole, mister Schmidt gets a text from Gabby
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  Speaker 1: saying no cell service in Yosemite, that's not even where
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  Speaker 1: she was supposed to be. And I believe that was
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  Speaker 1: on what the twenty ninth. Did you get that text, Mischmidt?
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  Speaker 1: It was the thirtieth, thirtieth. And if you get that
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  Speaker 1: on the thirtieth, no sales service in Yosemite, and then
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  Speaker 1: the vehicle thirty days has September, two days later, less
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  Speaker 1: than two days later, the van is already in Florida.
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  Speaker 1: That doesn't make sense, correct, doesn't make any sense. Let
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  Speaker 1: me ask you regarding her lexicon, her jargon, her vernacular,
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  Speaker 1: mischimidt would she have written that text? Would that are
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  Speaker 1: those her words? No cell phone? No cell service, Yosemite.
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  Speaker 1: Would would she have written that text? Now looking at
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  Speaker 1: it in retrospect, it's not her. I don't believe it's her.
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  Speaker 1: How would she normally write a text? I've been very curious.
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  Speaker 1: It would probably be more informal, like hey, mom, you know,
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  Speaker 1: don't try to conduct me. You know, going to be
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  Speaker 1: in a place with no service for a day or two.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I'll call you one week when week get out.
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  Speaker 1: You know. It would have been more like personable. I
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  Speaker 1: bet she would have said something like, but I'm okay,
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  Speaker 1: right because she knows don't know that I was a
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  Speaker 1: worried mother and she I would check on her constantly,
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  Speaker 1: and she was That's why she kept in touch with me.
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  Speaker 1: Would she have added emoji like a hard or smiley
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  Speaker 1: face or a flower or something like that. She wasn't
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  Speaker 1: a huge emoji user but once in a while. But
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  Speaker 1: it was more the wording that I look at as
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  Speaker 1: not being her. Let me ask you this, mister Schmidt.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone joining me is Jim Schmidt and Nicole Schmidt. These
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  Speaker 1: aren't Gabby's parents, Jim. Do we know yet whether that
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  Speaker 1: last text was triangulated? Do we know what part from
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  Speaker 1: what part of the country it came. But I'm not
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  Speaker 1: sure I know all the law enforcement agencies. It's a
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  Speaker 1: multiple agencies that are involved in this investigation, and I
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  Speaker 1: know they are working every avenue possible to get as
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  Speaker 1: much information as I can. Unfortunately, you know, they have
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  Speaker 1: to keep a lot of this information tight because they
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  Speaker 1: don't want anything to hamper their efforts or or interfere.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, we don't know that information. Guys. This
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  Speaker 1: in the back drop of the boyfriend being named a
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  Speaker 1: POI person of interest. Now I noticed when he was
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  Speaker 1: named a person of interest authorities law officer said, until
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  Speaker 1: he speaks to us and tells us and what happened
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  Speaker 1: and explains himself, he's a person of interest. Will that
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  Speaker 1: cloud of suspicion be lifted once he finally does speak
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  Speaker 1: with police? Don't know yet. Take a listen to Northport
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  Speaker 1: police press conference. You know he's going to remain a
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  Speaker 1: person of interest until until he starts speaking. He's that
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  Speaker 1: piece of the puzzle that that we need. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I can't I can't fathom why you refer to her
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  Speaker 1: as the love of your life on social media. But
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  Speaker 1: you won't speak out, you won't help, you won't do anything.
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  Speaker 1: It's absolutely absurd and it makes no sense to us,
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  Speaker 1: and he needs to speak up, and we're not gonna
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  Speaker 1: lay off. We're gonna keep pressure on him until he
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  Speaker 1: said something. Let's take a listen to that press conference.
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  Speaker 1: It just made more sense. Uh, you know the family
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  Speaker 1: that first of all, the agency in Suffolk County has
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  Speaker 1: been fantastic, you know, no issues there. This was just
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  Speaker 1: a situation where that happened to be where the family
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  Speaker 1: reported Gabby missing, and the fact that the van is
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  Speaker 1: here and both of these people that were are surrounded
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  Speaker 1: in this case are Northport residents, So it just made
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  Speaker 1: more sense. We definitely processed that vehicle yesterday with the FBI.
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  Speaker 1: Certainly there was some material in there that we'll be
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  Speaker 1: going through. I don't know that we're at a situation
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  Speaker 1: of releasing all of those details crime stories with Nancy Grace.
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  Speaker 1: We definitely process that vehicle yesterday with the FBI. Certainly
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  Speaker 1: there was some material in there that we'll be going through.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that we're at a situation of releasing
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  Speaker 1: all of those details. They kick her to that, Joe
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  Speaker 1: Scott Morgan, is any material that's found within the camper
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  Speaker 1: which Gabby herself worked out in the driveway. All of
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  Speaker 1: their neighbors saw her working and working and working converting
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  Speaker 1: a twenty twelve four transit into a travel camper. Her
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  Speaker 1: fingerprints and DNA and belongings would be in the camper anyway,
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  Speaker 1: so that may not indicate anything. Joe Scott. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you're right, and that's just day to day living. We're
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  Speaker 1: talking about touch DNA, those things that are left behind
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  Speaker 1: in common parlance. Yes, ma'am, guys, more of the presser listen.
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  Speaker 1: So here's the situation that happened. We went to the
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  Speaker 1: door Saturday night. We asked to speak with Brian and
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  Speaker 1: his family, and we were essentially handed the information for
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  Speaker 1: their attorney. That is the extent of our conversation with them.
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  Speaker 1: It's my unders standing we have had some conversations with
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  Speaker 1: his attorney, but certainly nothing to the level of providing
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  Speaker 1: us the details that we would like straight out to
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  Speaker 1: Nicole Schmidt. This is Gabby's mom joining us, Miss Schmidt,
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  Speaker 1: were you surprised that when the cause go to the
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  Speaker 1: door to speak to your daughter's boyfriend, they hand him
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  Speaker 1: a piece of paper with the lawyer's name written on it.
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  Speaker 1: It's a third I don't understand it. She lived with them,
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  Speaker 1: She's part of their family. Why aren't they talking? I
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  Speaker 1: have heard from various sources, Miss Schmidt that Brian Laundry
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  Speaker 1: actually flew home during the road trip and then flew
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  Speaker 1: back to where the camper was. Is that true? Where
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  Speaker 1: we've been told by the FDI that under investigation, we
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  Speaker 1: are not to discuss those things. Okay, I understand that,
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  Speaker 1: and anything that touches on the integrity of the investigation.
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  Speaker 1: We do not want to tamper with that. So just
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  Speaker 1: tell me, okay. Those reports will remain just that reports
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  Speaker 1: for right now, we are trying to figure out where
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  Speaker 1: they last were, Where Gabby was last seen alive, was
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  Speaker 1: she spotted on video? Was there in interest to one
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  Speaker 1: of the national parks where we can see her? All
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  Speaker 1: the cards are being held right now by her boyfriend,
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  Speaker 1: Brian Lorender, who refuses to speak. This as we learn
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  Speaker 1: that police in moab Utah were called to a and
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  Speaker 1: apparent domestic incident August the twelveth. We've been reviewing with
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  Speaker 1: a fine tooth comb that body him footage. Take a
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  Speaker 1: listen to our friends at CBS two New York our
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  Speaker 1: cup forty seven for the first time details of an
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  Speaker 1: altercation between the two in moab Utah on August twelfth.
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  Speaker 1: According to this police report, police responded to a reported
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  Speaker 1: domestic assault, but concluded it was a mental emotional health break. Quote.
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  Speaker 1: Brian explained he and Gabrielle have been traveling together for
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  Speaker 1: the last four or five months. That time spent created
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  Speaker 1: emotional stream between them and increased the number of arguments
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  Speaker 1: after arguing Gabrielle had gone into a manic state, telling
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  Speaker 1: police both suffer from a mental condition and we're not
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  Speaker 1: taking their meds. According to the report, police determined the
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  Speaker 1: altercation did not rise to the level of domestic assault
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  Speaker 1: and the two were told to separate for the night.
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  Speaker 1: Laundry was given a hotel room. Did he harm Gabby
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  Speaker 1: because if he did, you know, then he stole our
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  Speaker 1: car and gold across state lines. I tried to figure
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  Speaker 1: this out when I saw the footage, Nicole Schmidt, your
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  Speaker 1: Gabby's mom. Gabby did not look manic. She cried the
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  Speaker 1: whole time, and from what I could gather, she got
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  Speaker 1: locked out of the van. Laundry locked her out of
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  Speaker 1: the van and had her cell phone. In fact, a
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  Speaker 1: witness claimed she was trying to get through the window
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  Speaker 1: to get back in the van. She's out in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of nowhere and gets locked out of the van.
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  Speaker 1: It's the way I understood it. Yeah, it's very upsetting
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  Speaker 1: to see my daughter in that state and to hear
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  Speaker 1: what's going on. And I'm not really going to comment
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  Speaker 1: on the incident any further, but it is very upsetting.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I want to go to doctor Angelauna. I
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  Speaker 1: understand miss Schmidt, you know too, for a guy to
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  Speaker 1: lock the lady out of the van out in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of nowhere. I've been exactly where they are, and
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  Speaker 1: that terrain is very rugged. If you don't have your
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  Speaker 1: cell phone, you're screwed. And she got a lot out
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  Speaker 1: of the van. That's some power play. Huh. Yeah. I
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  Speaker 1: wonder she was crying, and you know, you know what
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  Speaker 1: else I wonder, Nancy, I wonder what led up to that,
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  Speaker 1: What led up to him locking her out of the van?
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  Speaker 1: Why had things gotten so out of control that he
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  Speaker 1: felt the need to well very small framed girl out
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  Speaker 1: of the van that she put together for this truck. Guys,
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: we are discussing the very latest and the attempt to
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  Speaker 1: find Gabby Gabrielle Potito to Jim Schmidt there. This is
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  Speaker 1: her stepfather. He's there in Jackson Hallym and looking for
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  Speaker 1: his girl. Jim, tell me about the search for her
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: that is going down right now, right now, the search,
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  Speaker 1: everything right now is being handled by law enforcement agencies. Um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we're just here to support them. I'm here
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  Speaker 1: with with a longtime family friend, and we're just here
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  Speaker 1: really in a support role to them. We're trying not
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  Speaker 1: to do anything or go anywhere that will, you know,
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  Speaker 1: negatively affect their investigation. So we're just we're just here
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  Speaker 1: to let them know that we're here for them for
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  Speaker 1: whatever they need. Miss Schmidt, you have been quoted as
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  Speaker 1: saying you have a gut feeling Gab is alive. Tell
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  Speaker 1: me about that. Yeah, I would thinks it's a long
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  Speaker 1: line more of hope. But I do feel that my
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  Speaker 1: daughter's out there, and I think she might need help,
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  Speaker 1: but I do feel she's alive. Well, Miss Schmidt. As
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  Speaker 1: I often say in criminal law, when you don't know
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  Speaker 1: a horse, look at the track record. Take a listen
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  Speaker 1: now to our cut forty five our friends at Fox thirteen,
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  Speaker 1: Salt Lake City. The other officer who interviewed Brian wrote
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  Speaker 1: Brian said, Gabrielle, thinking he was going to leave her
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  Speaker 1: in Moab without a ride, went to slap him. As
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  Speaker 1: Gabrielle started to swing, Brian pushed her away to avoid
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  Speaker 1: the slap. They also described Gabby's demeanor, saying, at no
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: point did Gabby stop crying, breathing heavily, or compose a
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  Speaker 1: sentence without needing to wipe away tears. They added, Brian
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  Speaker 1: did not show any signs. Brian did not show any
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  Speaker 1: signs that he had been a victim in the least
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  Speaker 1: what I'm getting at, Gabby thought she was going to
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  Speaker 1: be locked out of the van and left in Moab,
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  Speaker 1: Utah without a ride. If he had done that once,
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  Speaker 1: did he do it again? Did he take part in
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  Speaker 1: an argument and then just leave her? Do you have
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  Speaker 1: any reason to believe that is what happened, Jim Schmidt,
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  Speaker 1: You know, the only two people that truly know are
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  Speaker 1: Gabby and Brian. We don't know where Gabby is and
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  Speaker 1: Brian not talking, so we don't have answers to any
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  Speaker 1: of these questions. And this is what we need. We
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  Speaker 1: need answers to all of these questions. Miss miss Schmidt,
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  Speaker 1: at any point in their relationship had Brian Laundry ever
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  Speaker 1: been violent with Gabby before? I know that she had
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  Speaker 1: broken off their engagement in the past. Not to my knowledge,
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  Speaker 1: I think it wasn't really much of a broken off
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  Speaker 1: as an engagement, more than a let's put it on
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  Speaker 1: hold and just go try bull and stuff and not
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: worried about sending a wedding. Not to my knowledge, has
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  Speaker 1: he ever been violent. I mean they had their normal
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  Speaker 1: couple quarrels. They're young, you know, but nothing that would
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  Speaker 1: shoot off a red flag that he would harm her
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  Speaker 1: in any way. Crime stories with Nancy Grace, I just
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  Speaker 1: am going back to what we know, and we know
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  Speaker 1: that cops said she was afraid he was going to
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  Speaker 1: lock her out of the van again and leave her
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of nowhere. And when I say nowhere,
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  Speaker 1: I mean it very rugged, rough terrain. Take a listen
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  Speaker 1: to our cut forty nine. This is justin Sheker w FLA.
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  Speaker 1: The police report says Laundry told officers their time together
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  Speaker 1: traveling created an emotional strain between them and increase the
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  Speaker 1: number of arguments. He added, she went to slap him
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: because she feared he was going to leave her in
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  Speaker 1: Moab without a ride. The officers right. They decide the
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  Speaker 1: fight didn't rise to the level of domestic assault as
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  Speaker 1: much as that of a mental health crisis. Police recommended
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  Speaker 1: they spend the night apart so they can relax their
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: emotions and regain control of their anxiety. But Tito's stay
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  Speaker 1: with the van and police help Laundry get a hotel
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: room at Scavin Family Crisis Center. My next question to
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: mister Schmidt, who is joining us from Jackson Holle, Wyoming.
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  Speaker 1: To all of you listening to mister and miss Schmidt now,
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  Speaker 1: please call FBI two two five five three two four
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  Speaker 1: if you know anything about Gabby's whereabouts or you think
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  Speaker 1: you know anything, repeat one eight hundred two two five
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  Speaker 1: five three two four one eight hundred call f b I,
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: or you can go online. There's a go fund yet
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: help us find Gabby. Back to miss Schmidt, Schmidt, how
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  Speaker 1: often did you and Gabby speak frequently? If she was
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  Speaker 1: going to have that service for a couple of days,
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  Speaker 1: I knew it, and she would always call me right
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  Speaker 1: after to say, you know, I'm backing civilization. I'm at
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  Speaker 1: a Starbuck, you know, trying to upload videos and you know,
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  Speaker 1: get on my Instagram. She was really into the van
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  Speaker 1: life and trying to start her channel, and I talked
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  Speaker 1: to her at least three time de leete, if not more,
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  Speaker 1: And that is a huge undertaking. In fact, I was
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: watching in full the body cam video Miss Schmidt, and
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: I was listening to Laundry speaking and he says to
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  Speaker 1: the effect she's been really stressed out. She's trying to
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: launch her YouTube channel, her travel blog, and she's been
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: working really hard on that, and I'm just thinking about her.
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  Speaker 1: And in the video, she he's the one seemingly wrong.
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  Speaker 1: She's crying, she's up to set, and she keeps saying
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: things like, I'm sorry I was in a bad mood. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's heartbreaking, a sweet little thing. Why is she apologizing
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  Speaker 1: this sweet girl for being in a bad mood. It's
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  Speaker 1: really hard for me to imagine her in a quote
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  Speaker 1: bad mood. She's in the back of this van trying
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  Speaker 1: to launch a travel channel, and she was doing a
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  Speaker 1: beautiful job of it. Yeah, it hurts my heart to
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: see her in that position. And I wish I could
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: just go rescue her and hug her and you know,
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: see her from that heartbreak. Well, I just looked at her, Misschmidt,
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: and this beautiful young girl, just a waif. She's about
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: one hundred and ten pounds and she's I think around
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: five to five and crying out there in that hot sun, crying, crying, crying,
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: and the cops realize that they set her down in
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: their car. I think they've got some air condition going
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: trying to help her. It just breaks my heart that
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: now we don't know where she is. Back to you,
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: mister Schmidt, you say law enforcement is looking for her
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: right now? How are they doing it in that terrain?
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: They're working collectively with every agency at here. You know,
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: they're very familiar with this area. They're following up every
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: and old lead they have, you know, checking any last
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: known location. But a lot of it is very sin's,
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: very tight lips. They can't divulge a lot of that information.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: But I know they're doing their best. We know Gabby
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: was spotted. Let's get our cut forty one our friends
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: at Fox thirteen. Gabby was spotted at a local fairfield
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: in Listen. We've reported the last place and Gabby was
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: seen alive was at a Salt Lake City hotel on
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: August twenty fourth. We can now tell you a family
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: spokesperson says it was the Fairfield and in suites on
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: Admiral Bird Road, just west of the Salt Lake City
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: International Airport. That's right. Fox thirteen News did go to
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: the hotel this evening, whereas staff would not speak to
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: us on camera, but did say the FBI and police
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: officers have visited the hotel recently and Gabby stayed there
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: for more than a day. So tell me, mister Schmidt,
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: you are in Wyoming. That spotting of her at the
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: hotel was in Salt Lake You're convinced she actually made
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: it to Wyoming. Why? Yeah, we're convinced because you know,
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: some of our last posts on Instagram show that she
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: was in Ogden, Utah. You know, that would be you know,
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: leaving Salt Lake City and heading towards this way, you know,
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: heading off towards the Idaho Wyoming border. You know. Right
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: around that time too, she had some text communication with Nicole,
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: our wife, um just stating that you know, she was
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: up in this area and they were going here and
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: then they were continuing on to Yellowstone. So it was
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: just something that our doctor tells her that this is okay.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: So we need to get all Salt Lake City and
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: be focused on Whiteoming. Now it's my understanding the Ogden
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: Utah is confirmed by her shot of Happy Halloween was
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: kind of a joke because she was holding a little
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: crouchade pumpkin in front of a monarch butterfly backdrop. Is
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: that the one in Ogden, mister Schmidt, Yes, yes, I
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: believe that's okay, Yes, that was from there. Let me
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: go to Garna, Mehia reporter KSLTV in Salt Lake Garna.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: We now know that she made it to Whiteoming. What
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: more do we know? I understand she was spotted at
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: a gas station. Where was that That information about the
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: gas station, I'm not too certain about out. I think
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: one of the first sightings actually came from a tourists
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: that were coming through town and they remarked they noticed
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: that this van was really unique. They were on this
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: trip act. I think they're actually from Florida, and they
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: were some of the first to come forward and said,
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: you know what, that van is really unique. We'd like
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: to try something like that, and that really stood out
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: to them. So when they started to see all of
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: this come up just over the weekend, really they reached
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: out to the family and said, hey, we know this,
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: we have pictures. We were in that area, and I've
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: been in contact with them and they even took their
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: phone to a Verizon store to see if they could spot,
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: you know, Gabby in the background of one of their pictures.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: They couldn't, but they assure us and I think the
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: family didn't can speak to that that you know, they
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: saw the van, they saw them here and speaking of
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: signings of the vantake to listen to our cut forty
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: eight CBS two police releasing new images of the van
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: asking for information at a new FBI tipline. Police say
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: they were using every technol logical resource to scour cell records,
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: app usage, videos, tolls and more. If she's out there,
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: we're doing everything in our power to bring her home.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: The Laundry's attorney says he's the one advising the young
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: man to remain silent, adding intimate partners are often the
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: first person suspected on advice accouncil. The Laundry family is
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: remaining in the background. That is not good enough. We
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: need the details. In response, Gabby's family said in a statement, Brian,
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: your silence is reprehensible. We beg you to do the
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: right thing and help us bring Gabby home. Whatever happened
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: in Wyoming happened. The only thing you can control is
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: what you do now. Meanwhile, Laundry's attorney remains adamant. He says,
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: you know that statement, Anything that you say will be
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: used against you. He says, that's true, and he's telling
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: Brian Laundry to remain silent. Crime stories with Nancy Grace.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: To Jim Schmidt, this is Gabby's stepdad out there on
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: the ground looking for Gabby in Wyoming. I don't know
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: if you're going to comment on this, but it's just
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: what are your feelings knowing that Brian Laundry has the
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: key to her last whereabouts as you were out there
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: scouring the teachers trying to find It's an act of cowardice,
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: that's all it is. Stand up, be a man and
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: do what's right and help us find her. That's all
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: we're asking. Its remaining in the background is ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous,
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: and we need answers. You have the answers, and you
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: need to let law enforcement know. You need to let
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: us know where Gabby is. If you love her, if
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: you care about her, you need to speak up. I mean,
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: Joe Scott Morgan, you and I have both been part
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: of grid searches before. They're very difficult. I mean in
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: a cornfield, in a pasture, much less in rugged, rugged
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: terrain such as out west. The reality is he's got
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: the key to where he last saw her. Yeah, a
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: needle in a haystack is the best analogy, Nancy, And
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: you're right. You know, when we do grid searches, it's
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: a very narrow area. And just think about all of
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: the law enforcement agencies that are involved in this. In
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: order to do these grid searches, you need individuals that
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: are familiar with that terrain. They couldn't PLoP somebody like
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: myself or Mike or anybody else down in that area
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: we're not familiar with it. This guy has to come
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: forward and Mike King joining us host of profiling evil
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: former police officer in Ogden, Utah. Mike, I don't get it.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: Why not at least just throw us a breadcrumb right
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: just where he last saw her. If they got into
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: an argument and he drove off without her, that's one thing.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: Did she fall from a cliff? Is she lost on
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: a trail? Why would they not? Are the parents not
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: letting him speak at all? On the other hand, He's
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: a twenty three almost twenty four year old young man.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: Why are his parents having to protect him? Yeah, I'm
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: with you on that. Number One. You have to go
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: back to the fact that it sounds like they were
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: living in the parents home, They're tripping around the countryside together.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: All of a sudden, she disappears and he goes for
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: ten days that we absolutely know more likely fourteen days
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: without reaching out and saying something happened. Gabby disappeared. It
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: is unconscionable that this kind of behavior is going on,
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: and I just cannot understand his thinking behind it. I agree, guys,
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: I want you to take a listen to Gabby herself.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: This is our cut fifty nine. She's talking to the listen. Yeah,
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: I'm really said ocd okay. I just I was just
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: cleaning when he was creating up back at him before,
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: and I was apologizing to him and saying I'm sorry
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: that I'm so mean because sometimes I have listened sometimes
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: I did get really frustrated. I'm not like mean him,
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: I just like, I guess my vibe was like I
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: had me like in a bad mood, and I was
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: just saying I'm sorry if I'm in a bad mood.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: I just really stressed. I had so much work I
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: was doing like acuters morning, Um well I he was
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: forgetting are getting too star But I just hit my job.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: I was in nutritious, That's what that was. But I
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: just put my job to travel across the country and
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to start a blog like force. So I've
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: been building my website. I've been really stressed, and I
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: really believe that I could do any of its kind
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: of been like a I don't know, he's like down there,
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: I don't know. We'dn't been inviting one morning, and and
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: you would I mean a car before or when you
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: were a bird? So meys gone down, yes, but I
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: hear be calm as I'm he really is me own
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: and read. This is a rough one straight out to
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: Gabby's mother. This is Nicole Schmidt joining us. I've analyzed
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: every single word, and I want to hear your thoughts
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: on what Gabby's saying. It's breaking my heart. She sounds
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: like she was just stressed and having a bad day.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: Um it hurts. It hurts to hear her pain. Did
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: you hear her say I'm building my blog, my website.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: I'm so stressed. He doesn't really believe I can do
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: any of it. He would not let her in the
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: car and kept telling her to calm down. I'd be
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: upset too if I was out in the desert in
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: moabbe Utah and I'm not allowed back in my car,
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: I'd be upset too. But it hurts me that she's
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: working like a maniac, trying to launch something, trying to
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: build a business, and she's the one having to apologize
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: for quote being in a bad mood because she had
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: to work on her computer all morning. Yeah, that's it's
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: so hurtful to hear that. It seems like, you know,
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: the officer was going to give her a fine or
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: something for for domestic but they decided not to. And
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: it just blows my mind that. You know, he was
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: cool and collected in the video. But I mean, I
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: don't know what else to think about it. I'm just
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: really sad for her. It hurts my heart to see it.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: I just hate hearing her so upset. Joining me is
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: Gabby's mom and also her stepdad, Del Carson calmed down.
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: It's her van, She's the one building a business and
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: he's telling her her to calm down. I don't get it.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: But my question to you is more of a legal one,
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: says you're the lawyer, the defense lawyer joining us. Why
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: can't the boyfriend just stay very simply where he last
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: saw her. Why did he come home and keep his
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: arrival a secret? He was there for about ten days
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: without her and with her van. He can very easily
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: communicate through other channels to law enforcement specifically what not
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: necessarily what transpired, but where she was last seen. And
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: the only reason I can fathom that a defense attorney
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: wouldn't provide that information directly to law enforcement, okay without
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: a statement from his client, because he doesn't have to
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: give that and as a result, it can't be used
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: against him. But the only other reason is because there's
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: a physical evidence present at that location which would implicate
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: the client. Yes, because if it's just a matter of telling, well,
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: I last saw her in Wyoming at this gas station,
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: we had a fight, we had a blow up, I
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: drove off. If it's that simple, why not say so?
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: Which tells me it's not that simple, Miss Schmidt, What
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: if anything, can you tell us about moving Gabby's possessions
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: into storage in Florida? I think so there's some speculation
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: and mixed up stories about that. We're kind of not
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: going to talk about that situation right now. Okay, okay,
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: I completely understand that. Let me go to Gharanamahia KSLTV.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: What do we know about some of Gabby's belongings being
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: put in storage in Florida? She was living there in Florida,
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: the boyfriend lives there, the parents are there. What do
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: we know about her aud is being put in storage?
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: Is that correct? I actually can't confirm that either. I
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: do know from our earlier conversation with Nicole that she
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: had mentioned they had been saving for a long time
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: to take this trip. This was kind of a dream
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: of theirs to do, and they wanted to, you know,
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: get She mentioned that they had gotten rid of a
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: lot of their things to be able to get in
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: this van and go on this trip, and they were
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: planning for this to last several months. I mean, I
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: don't think she was due back in Florida until late October. So, yeah,
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: it concerns me to hear quote. We've been finding the
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: words of the boyfriend, Brian Laundry, mister Schmidt joining me.
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: He's there in Jackson Halle, Wyoming, searching for Gabby. Did
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: you know them to have a contentious relationship. No, anytime
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: they were together, you know, they seem to be pretty happy.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: You know, all of my interactions with him, it was
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: always very respectful, very nice. The two of them always
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: seemed to get along very well. You know, if there
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: was any indication, you know, we didn't. We didn't see it.
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: Miss Schmidt. What is your message today? What is your
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: message to everyone out there? Don't quit, keep trying, keep looking,
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: keep sharing her picture, her videos, look for her. And
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: I plead with the Laundry family to please say something,
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: anything to help us find her. Mister Schmidt, what is
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: your message? My message is to speak up, tell us
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: where she is. We're not going to stop until you speak,
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: Until you tell us what's going on, what happened. None
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: of that matters at this point. All that matters is
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: you tell us where she was left known to be
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: or where she is. That's all we want to know.
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: And you are to speak up. Please. You know, Miss Schmidt,
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: you and I agree on so many things, and one
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: of them is there is nothing stronger than a mother's
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: law of do you feel in your heart? Does your
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: intuition tell you your daughter is alive and out there
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: to be found. Yes, and I believe she needs help,
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: and because I know her, and she just wants somebody
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: to help her. And I beg for everybody to just
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: keep looking, and you know, do what you can. Everybody
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: do it you can, because now at this point she
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: has America's daughter. She's she's your daughter, he's my daughters,
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: he's everybody's daughters. Let's just find her. You are hearing
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: the voice of and Nicole Schmidt, Gabby's mother, and her
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: stepfather Jim Schmidt there and ym and trying his best
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: to find her, braving the elements along with police and
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: searchers looking for Gabby. Won't you help us if you
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: have information or think you saw her or the boyfriend,
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: laundry or the converted twenty twelve Ford transit white in color,
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: Please call one eight hundred call f b I the
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: numbers one eight hundred, two two five, five, three two four.
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: The search for Gabby goes on Nancy Grace Crime Story,
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: signing off, our prayers continue. Goodbye friend